We got our lone survivor from the germination debacle planted up in her 1 gallon grow bag which we rehydrated for 24 hours with calmag solution. Light is dimmed to 20 watts, 1 foot from plant and added a homemade humidity dome. Might still be too close, I’m not familiar with this light but I like that the dimmer is built-in. She looks cute in her new home! She’s been under 24/0 since she popped so we are moving to 20/4 for the rest of this week and then next week we should be at 18/6. I’m feeling very grateful that she survived for us after such a rough start. It was beautiful watching her finally lose the seed coat and open up for us once we extracted her from the other substrate. Now the test will be to see if this new substrate can handle my watering style!
We are having our first family dinner tonight since Turkey Day so it will be nice to have something to show of the project we started together! And for that I’m grateful too!!
Much love and happy growing ❤️🌱
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Day 4: She had a drop of dew this morning at lights on. Took off the dome for an hour and then I replaced it with the lid off. She’s lovely and straight, free of the last piece of casing without any scars. She doesn’t look like a refugee anymore. I love having her on display as a visual reminder to be grateful and giving
Gratitudes practice tips. ´´Use Visual Reminders. Because the two primary obstacles to gratefulness are forgetfulness and a lack of mindful awareness, visual reminders can serve as cues to trigger thoughts of gratitude.´´
Jade plant was watered in with gp3 at transplant, showing new growth at every tip, her cuttings have dried and I’ve started the weekly sprays of vitathrive on mom and cuts until mom’s pot has completely dried and cuts have roots. I’m so grateful for her resilience. She’s my muse 💪
And now to sit with my plants with gentle music, a joint and a cup of tea, breathe deeply and take a moment to practice gratitude ✌️🖖
She drinks almost 500ml per day, 6 inches tall. We have to wait about 4 more weeks before we have flowering space so we will probably give her 16 tops in total.
Happy growing
We topped her down to node 3 and removed growth sites below, hope it wasn’t too much, watered her in with our collected rain water enriched with the gp3 nutrients 🤞🤞
Happy growing
Friendship plant update: the soil took 2 weeks to dry out and she was watered again today. Growth on every branch but she’s still very “soft” and in recovery. Half dose fertilizer and moderate light, letting the soil dry down, giving her a gentle wake up. Once she’s firmed up, probably in the spring, she will get root pruned and repotted in a good fast draining compost. Then we will wire her and tidy up her bonsai. No signs of roots from the cuttings yet but we know from experience we need patience!
Gratitude practice update: We are growing our practice along with our plants and we are finding more and more reasons to be thankful. I find I’m most thankful for family and it inspires me to do extra little acts of kindness for them throughout my day. That makes the good feelings grow
We will update more later in the week.
Happy growing friends